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Monday, July 12, 2010

Flies and frogfruit

The frogfruit that I transplanted from the street has taken off. So in honor of its success, I decided I'd shoot a few photos. This strange looking insect showed up so I took some portraits of it as well. It looks very much like a mosquito. But mosquitos do NOT feed on nectar (I have the bites to prove it). Once again I went to Bugguide.net. It's a bee fly in the genus of Geron.

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I write for a living. So I sit. A lot. In front of my computer. At a desk. Next to my office window. I'd always thought it'd be so cool to set a bird bath between two live oaks I can see from my window. Then I could take breaks and just watch. Well, I got my bird bath, all right. When I married my husband, James Hearn, in May 2006, I got that. And more. Thanks to the enthusiastic help of my partner, our lawn now brims with native flowers, plants, birds and other wildlife. In 2007, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department certified our yard (front and back) as a Texas Wildscape. In 2012, I became a certified Texas Master Naturalist with the Highland Lakes chapter. Also in 2012, TPWD designated our Wildscape as a Wildlife Habitat Demonstration Site. From my window now, nearly every day, I watch nature have fun. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to write.... (Profile photo by Earl Nottingham)